All the talk about Iraq, Iran and immigration?
Important, for sure.
But the most popular YouTube video clip so far from Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate is "Lightning strikes Rudy," which captures the humorous moment when lightning from a passing storm briefly cut off Rudy Giuliani's microphone.
The bolt struck just as Giuilani was starting to answer a question about something that Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin wrote last week about the GOP candidate:
Giuliani's pro-choice positions on abortion are "pathethic and confusing," wrote Tobin, bishop of Providence. And he compared Giuliani to "the sad figure of Pontius Pilate in the Gospels, who personally found no guilt in Jesus, but for fear of the crowd, washed his hands of the whole affair and handed Jesus over to be crucified. I can just hear Pilate saying, 'You know, I'm personally opposed to crucifixion but I don't want to impose my belief on others.' "
The "hand of God" coincidence of a question about something said by a bishop and a lightning strike produced laughter from Giuliani -- and joking moves by Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain to get away from the former New York City mayor.
So far, the clip has been viewed more than 170,000 times -- making it the fifth-most viewed video today. There's no video from Sunday night's Democratic debate that comes even close to that number.
The Giuliani video, however, lags well behind some raw, unaired video of CNN's Larry King at the debate site Tuesday. "King unplugged" has been watched nearly 470,000 times today. In it, the talk show giant expresses a bit of seeming pique about how much time his CNN colleague Anderson Cooper is going to get on the air. "What I want to know is," he tells a producer, "Anderson gets more time with his panel than we get with ours? And if so, why?"
There are also 11 seconds of King strenuously rubbing his eyes.
Source : blogs.usatoday.com
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